Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:43:24 -0800 From: Daniel Rudy <dr2867@pacbell.net> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unique hardware identification Message-ID: <45C36A2C.10408@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <E1HCsus-0001RB-6u@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <20070128181132.GR927@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070201.113851.689651534.imp@bsdimp.com> <20070201104917.C82313@xorpc.icir.org> <20070201.124057.709402517.imp@bsdimp.com> <45C2D0F7.3000007@pacbell.net> <20070202070654.GD909@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <E1HCsus-0001RB-6u@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
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At about the time of 2/1/2007 11:33 PM, Danny Braniss stated the following: >> --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> Content-Disposition: inline >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> >> On Thu, 2007-Feb-01 21:49:43 -0800, Daniel Rudy wrote: >>> None of this stuff appears on my system and I'm running 6.1. I can't >>> even find dmidump anywhere on the system or in ports either. >> Please elaborate. kenv(8) states that it first appeared in 4.1.1 and >> I don't recall seeing any reference to 'dmidump' in this thread. >> >> If you're referring to getting smbios data reported in kenv - that is >> up to your system/BIOS vendor: If they don't embed the information in >> the BIOS, FreeBSD can't report it. The response on my laptop is >> complete. My older whitebox desktops either don't have the data >> populated or don't report it at all. > > kenv appeared in 4.1, the smbios. stuff only appeared midway in 6.1 > > danny > That would explain it then. I'm running 6.1 release with the security updates, not stable. -- Daniel Rudy
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